Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-14
49th Congressional Session.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
SENArE-Among the bills reported from
| committees and placed on thescalendar were
| the following: By Mr.. Hoar, from the LII
brary committee, for the erection of a monu-
ment to negro soldiers and sailors who gave
their lives to the preservation of the govern
ment. By Mr.. Frye, from the Committee on
Commerce, making Hartford, Conn, port
of entry in place of Middietown; also an
amendment to the postofilce appropriation
mails between the United States and Brazil
and Central and South America. By MIR.
German, from the Committee on Commerce,
appropriating $500, 900 for the jetties OF
Charleston harbor.
The Senate resumed consideration of the
conference report on the inter-Stats COM
MERGE bill After the report had been read
in full Mr.. Hoar moved that the Senate dis
agree to the report, insist on its former &C
ton and request further conference.
Mr.. Cullom claimed that his motion to
agree to the report took precedence OF mo-
ton to disagree.
Mr. Harris one of the confsrees, desired
every Senator to realize the fact that when
he voted on the question of agreeing or d1sa-
greeting to this report he was voting in effect
on the question as to whether there should
be any legislation on the subject during this
Congress.
ME-. Hoar characterized Mr.. Harris state
ment as extraordinary and appealed to the
Senate not to submit to that kind of threat
Here was q bill which embodied four great
salutary propositions on which the Senate,
the House of Representatives and the Amer
lean people were substantially agreed, and
the Senate was now told that none of these
things could be accomplished unless there
was engrafted on the bill what was depart
are from the great doctrine of reasonableness,
unless there was engrafted on it a principle
against which the customers and not the rail-
roads interested in the carrying trade were
protesting on the ground that the inevitable
effect of it would be to put up freight
and to make large branches of business now
carried successfully and probably i'm
possible in the future.
Mr.. George advocated the adoption of the
report.
Mr.. Frye gave notice that he would move
to recommit the report with instructions, and
claimed that motion would take precedence
of the other two motions
Mr. Evarts then addressed the Senate, de-
livering an elaborate argument against the
adoption of the report
At the conclusion of Mr.. Evarts' speech
against the inter State commerce bill, an un-
Outstanding was reached that vote should
be taken before adjournment to morrow, and
at P. m. the Senate went into executive
session.
The House amendments to the anti -polyga-
my bill were non-concurred in and a confer
ence ordered.
Adjourned.
HoUsE.-Mr. Bland of Missouri, from the
Committee on Coinage, Weights and Meas
ures, reported back resolution calling upon
the Secretary of the Treasury for Information
to the monthly purchase and coinage OF
silver.
The bill was then passed amending the
laws regulating the removal of cases from
State to Federal courts. (The bill increases
the minimum jurisdiction of the circuit
courts from $500 to $4,000, takes away from
the circuit courts jurisdiction of cases in
favor of assignees of promissory notes and
bills of exchange, and restricts to the de-
PENDANT the right to remove a case from the
State to the Federal court.)
The bill extending the jurisdiction of the
court of claims to include all claims against
the government except war claims was pass
ed.
The bill to ext nd the time in which to
bring suit on war claims was taken up and
pendinp debate tina House adjourned